ming from Grandfather
Goosey Gander's house." So he cried as loudly as he could: "Alice!
Alice! Where are you, Alice?"

"Oh, here I am!" the duck girl suddenly cried, though Bully couldn't see
her on account of the fog. "Oh, I'm so glad you came to find me, for
I've been lost a long time."

"Walk right over this way!" called Bully, "and I'll take you home by the
string. Come over here!"

"Yes, come over here!" called another voice, and Bully looked and what
should he see but a savage alligator, hiding in the fog, with his mouth
wide open. The alligator hoped Alice would, by mistake, walk right into
his mouth so he could eat her. And he kept calling right after Bully,
and poor Alice got so confused with the two of them shouting that she
didn't know what to do.

Bully was afraid the alligator would get her, so what did he do but take
up a big stone, and, hiding in the fog, he threw the rock into the
alligator's mouth.

"There! Chew on that!" called Bully, and the alligator was so angry that
he crawled right away, taking his scaly, double-jointed tail with him.

Then Bully called again, and this time Alice found where he was in the
fog, and she waddled up to him, and she wasn't lost any more, and Bully
took her home by following the string. Then the fog blew away and they
were all happy, and had some more jam sandwiches.

Now, in case it doesn't rain and wet my new umbrella so that the pussy
cat can go to school, and learn how to make a mouse trap, I'll tell you
next about Bawly No-Tail and Lulu Wibblewobble.

STORY XXV

BAWLY AND LULU WIBBLEWOBBLE

Bawly No-Tail, the frog boy, was hopping along one day whistling a
little tune about a yellow-spotted doggie, who found a juicy bone, and
sold it to a ragman for a penny ice cream cone. After the little frog
boy had finished his song he hopped into a pond of water and swam about,
standing on his head and wiggling his toes in the air, just as when the
boys go in bathing.

Well, would you ever believe it? When Bawly bounced up out of the water
to catch his breath, which nearly ran away from him down to the
five-and-ten-cent-store--when Bawly bounced up, I say, who should he see
but Lulu Wibblewobble, the duck girl, swimming around on the pond.

"Hello, Lulu!" called Bawly.

"Hello!" answered Lulu. "Come on, Bawly, let's see who can throw a stone
the farthest; you or I."

"Oh, pooh!" cried the frog boy. "I can, of course. You're only a girl."

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